Poll on Gilgit Baltistan
Dear Friends,
A prestigious Pakistani magazine the ‘Herald’ termed Gilgit Baltistan as “The Last Colony”. A Pakistani journalist, Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri, wrote in Pakistani English daily, ‘Dawn’ ‘For almost five decades, the area has been under virtual Martial Law. Minister of Kashmir and Northern Affairs, Qamar Zaman Kaira in Jawab Deh, a famous talk show of Geo News, stated, ” Gilgit-Baltistan is not part of Pakistan constitutionally but is part of Pakistan administratively.” Since state administration without constitution is obvious to be illegal, stress lines are deepening in the region and a demand for the destiny of the people of Gilgit Baltistan is mounting day by day. How do you see the future of this land. Participate in this poll and ask your friends to show up.
Cheers,
gilgit should be an indepandent country and we dont want any provence we r independent people and we want independance
hasrat
September 18, 2009 at 6:49 am
Politics is one thing and our affiliation with Pakistan and islam is another.At the time of creation of Pakistan Gilgit was terribly backward, the local muslim population hated the Sikh ruler and its army,even today the people of Bunji and Jaglot have differences with roots from the Dogra era.It was the people of Jaglot who rebelled against the Bunji garrison and destroyed the Partab pul, which till today bears witness of the hatered towards Indian rule.There was a very narrow track through Babusar to Gilgit,obviously one of the causes of slow development.It was after the construction of the KKH that Gilgit saw rapid progress.Being a Gilgiti I attribute the slow progress to the people of Gilgit.Only a few enterprising and well read people of Gilgit like Wazir Shamshad Mamu,Wali Family,Raziq Wakil, Usman sahib (author of many books) Shaheen&Abdullah Contractors,took up business. Other business men came from Hazara or Swat. Faqir Shah came from Manshera started as a jeep driver and became a millionaire.Why could most of the people of Gilgit not follow suit. Most of the shopkeepers in the markets are not locals,Why?They are either Kashgharis or Pathans. The few who attained higher education went and settled in Islamabad ,Lahore or Karachi and then their Children prefer not to stay in the backward areas, obviously due to fewer facilities.
In the Last sixty years people from Gilgit have attianed positions in almost all fields of life,to name a few, be it geology( Mr. Abdullah,Sadaqat), Gems business (Inayatullah foreign qualified), Army(Colonel Hassan’s Sons,Brigadier Inayat Wali,Brig Barkat,Brig Ahmed Khan,General Najam, countless Colonels ) Doctors ( Faarman, Ijaz,Col Farman dentist, Diaar yuchi Anaesthetist)bureaucrats Wazir Sadiq,Humayun beg and his sons,Mohammad Ali, Fida Hussain, Noor Mohammad). Things now are absolutely different, the locals are now quite self sufficient and capable to manage and run their own affairs. I think instead of harping for independence, there is a need of gathering all the experienced well read even retired local people and ask the government now we have the trained and experienced human resource in all walks of life to manage our own affiars in our own traditional ways.I strongly oppose seperatist ideas propogated by the Indians.
Rest Assure all the above mentioned notables hate any form of Indian hagemony or domination.
We should discourage such rash statements hailed by the Indians,and sincerely think for a progressive path for the development of the Gilgit Baltistan region. The Governor of this region should be an experienced notable local to this region and not an alien political personality elected into power from some other province.All the bureaucracy should be run by experienced locals of repute. I do not want to belittle the nationalist feelings but would certainly want to demarcate cheap political popularity and sincere and earnest drive towards political autonomy.
TO START WITH, an association of all the well read experienced locals from all walks of life like former bureaucrats,senior miitary officers,Doctors, professors , Engineers, and other Civil servants
should be made. This powerful forum may then impress upon the government of Pakistan in a reasonable and sensible way to trust the experienced locals to run their own affairs, the efficiency of which shall certainly be more than a system infested with non local people of vested interests.I strongly oppose political people of other provinces running our affairs because ultimately things end up into vested interests and compromise developmen of local areas.
Having proposed the above I invite the young and old to forward their comments to the above proposal. I also suggest that we should discourage any comment favouring the Dogras of the Indians in relation to our culture or future.
Gilgit and Baltistan have a great economic prospect such as international tourism,( a multi Billion Dollar industry) which cannot be realised if we resort to seperatist infighting.take the example of Maldives a small muslim island country which runs its economy on tourism. Why cant we not get together, ensure and restor our peaceful harmony by shunning international interference in our politics and future and ensure peace which shall then autimatically invite tourists from the world over and turn the backwardness of this region into prosperity.
I request the Indians to leave us alone and try and improve the lives of their own population.We would rather die fighting rather than accept Indian dominatin i any form, which we already demonstrated sixty years ago.
Mir Aman Adil
September 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Gilgit Baltistan: Response To Pakistan’s Lack Of Collaboration
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Chairman of the Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement addressed Pakistan’s lack of collaboration in granting local administration to the area people of the region, after withdrawing its military and civilian personnel in accordance with the resolution of the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan.
Below is an article published by Giglit Baltistan United Movement :
The right of legislation in Gilgit-Baltistan rests with the people of the region. “The government of Pakistan’s proposals to make laws and bring constitutional packages for the region are unlawful and hold no ground at all, as the region does not fall under Pakistan’s constitution of 1973,” said Chairman Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement Manzoor Hussain Parwana. He spoke at a consultative workshop titled “Gilgit-Baltistan’s constitutional status and the government’s constitutional package” organized by the Human Rights Advocacy Network and Sangi Development Foundation .
Furthermore, he stated that Gilgit-Baltistan is not constitutional part of Pakistan and the people of the region did not acceded to Pakistan, that is the reason the region have remained without a constitution for the last over 62 years. He said Pakistan had taken over the administrative affairs of the region under the dubious “Karachi Pact” and was supposed to hand over the local administration to the area people after withdrawing its military and civilian personnel in accordance with the resolution of the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan. However, Pakistan failed to meet its obligations. The other obligation of Pakistan was to protect the life and property of the people of the region and this too it ahs failed so far, he claimed.
Mr Parwana said the assembly of any country formulates laws to run the affairs of the state in accordance with the wishes of the people. However, Gilgit-Baltistan is the only area which neither has representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan, Senate nor has its own assembly to formulate the laws.
The government has established a committee of secret agencies to formulate constitutional package to Gilgit Baltistan .It is enough to understand that Gilgit Baltistan is a colonized state of intelligence agencies.
He said if the government really wants to bring a package for the region it should first hold consultation with the people of the region including political leaders, nationalist parties, intellectuals, students, lawyers and others otherwise the package would be rejected.
The GBUM chief said the struggle of the nationalist parties in the region not based on any frustration, prejudice, hatred but was based on a geographical and ideological foundation. He said any political or other forces who try to sabotage the struggle of the nationalists were the enemies of the culture, traditions and history of the people of the region. Rather they are in denial of the principles and sayings of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he added. He said that the creation of Pakistan was not aimed at depriving other nations of their rights nor Islam allowed anyone to plunder the rights of others. Therefore, the government of Pakistan should ensure all basic rights to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in accordance with the teachings of Islam and principles of democracy.
Hyder Abbas
June 30, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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MZ
May 31, 2009 at 8:49 am